. Also, given the lack of sales, we were probably right on this one. I think that, perhaps, solidifies my point; Apple is not moved by sales, but rather margins. If the new mac pros have lower sales, but the profit margins generate more profit, that's the lesson that Apple gets out of the exercise....

At least Fujitsu still has SPARC, and there are still SPARC things around. Fujitsu is getting out of the SPARC game, at least they're getting rid of a big chunk of their architecture people. Honestly, most of the action is moving into the cloud, or towards very distributed systems. Big iron is beco...

SGI may not care, but that does not mean that SGI's licensors will not care. Best to tread carefully and slowly, and not "tickle the tiger's tail" or some similar phrase that came up at one point. To be fair. It's most unlikely these licensors would waste time and effort, that they don't ...

I think so too. I would have bought one for sure. I remember running Win2k prof on that box. It looked great on my desk. Why did they go with the whole ARCS prom cobalt custom graphics on a custom mobo? It would have been cool if they had put in some kind of bios compatibility mode. It was a retard...